The Newberry herald and news. (Newberry, S.C.) 1884-1903, 1887-08-04
YERDURE-CLAD NEWBERRY.
A PROSPEROUS AND PROGRES-
SIVE TOWN.
Charming the Visitor-Railway Feed
ers-The Cotton Factory-Banks-
The Colleges and Churches-A
Hard Place to Leave-The
People Wide Awake.


Staff Correspondent Neacs and Courier.
NEwBERRY, July 20.-There has
been nothing phenomenal in the
growth of this city. 1t has gone on
steadily and constantly on tie lines
and in the channels Of Improvement,
and has now reached that stage from
which the future appears bright with
the promises Of hope. The city,
during its embryonic period, had not
the :ocal advantages that have made
other cities rise to eminence in g
short period of time. Until quite
recent years boom was an unknown
factor in its progress, but in the
meantime the city kept on growing,
developing itself on its own merits,
until it has now become ajustly proud
competitor of the many rising cities
in northern South Carolina.
With but one railroad, the Colum-
bia and Greenville, up to the present
time. it will be admitted that New.
berry may not be charged with com
ing to the front by slow or uncertain
steps. Like most Of the cities of the
State, the period of prosperity and
progress began only ten years ago
Since then, Newberry, with its af'
fairs in it's own hands, has moved
along in many respects at equal PAGES
with its generous rivals, and in many
. others has outstripped them on the
road to success along all the lines.
Nature has been bountiful in her
gifts to the country of which New
berry is the distributing centre OF
trade. The place around and about
the metropolis Of the county is fertile,
and as 8 consequence it is populous
For miles and miles around there is
an endless succession of farms and
plantations. Cotton, of course, is
the crop Of the farming community,
and never has there been a time
when the harvest promises to be more
abundant than at present. The good
fortune of the farmer has naturally
frightened the skies Of his neighbor
in, the city, and there are everywhere,
''in town. the signs of good times,
past, present and future.
s.' PLEASANT TO VISIT.
A visit to Newberry under such
circumstances and conditions must
necessarily be pleasant one, and
one of which to print the record is
almost Irresistible. Very little, per
haps, need be said of the city itself
in the way of description of its
streets and buildings. These are
familiar to all good South Caroli'
mans. 1t is charming place to go
to, charming place TO stay at, and
most especially difficult place to
leave. Its streets are something
unique, however, compared with
those of modern cities which have
been laid out with the engineers
chain and transit. They are not as
wide as the avenues of the city OF
Magnificent Distances, nor are they
as narrow as the alleged streets OF
Cairo or Aavana. They are, most OF
them, merely lurrow enough to be
somewhat remarkable. But with
their long lines of shade trees, the
general neatness of the private resi-
dences, and the cleanliness Of the
pavements and roadways, there is
nothing in the State to compare with
these delightfully."- cool, albeit narrow
streets of Newberry. The city itself
is, as it were, verdure clad, and at
distance looks like some sequestered
town nestled among hills and forests
with here and there prominent fea
tu7e of it's architecture rising above
the tree tops and speaking of an &C
tive, bustling city below. Approach
ing the city either way along the rail
road, two prominent buildings loom
up that are especially suggestive Of
the present spirit of Newberry. One
its cotton fsctory, the other its beau
tiful opera bouse-or industrial &C
tivity and social education in its
most pleasant phase.
TIE RAILWAYS.
AS in all the cities of the State
the cotton market Of Newberry is the
mainstay of its commercial life. The
feeders of this market are the Colum
bia and Greenvil!e Railroad and the
Laurens Road. BY these it is esti
mated that at least two-thirds of the
cotton product Of the county finds its
way to the county seat. The terri
tory covered by the Laurens Road is
however, very SHIRT, it being only
about fifteen miles to the line Of Lau
rens County with the town Of Lau
rens as 8 formidable competitor